Population genomic evidence that human and animal infections in Africa come from the same populations of Dracunculus medinensis.

• Main Authors: Caroline Durrant (Author), Elizabeth A Thiele (Author), Nancy Holroyd (Author), Stephen R Doyle (Author), Guillaume Sallé (Author), Alan Tracey (Author), Geetha Sankaranarayanan (Author), Magda E Lotkowska (Author), Hayley M Bennett (Author), Thomas Huckvale (Author), Zahra Abdellah (Author), Ouakou Tchindebet (Author), Mesfin Wossen (Author), Makoy Samuel Yibi Logora (Author), Cheick Oumar Coulibaly (Author), Adam Weiss (Author), Albrecht I Schulte-Hostedde (Author), Jeremy M Foster (Author), Christopher A Cleveland (Author), Michael J Yabsley (Author), Ernesto Ruiz-Tiben (Author), Matthew Berriman (Author), Mark L Eberhard (Author), James A Cotton (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

<h4>Background</h4>Guinea worm-Dracunculus medinensis-was historically one of the major parasites of humans and has been known since antiquity. Now, Guinea worm is on the brink of eradication, as efforts to interrupt transmission have reduced the annual burden of disease from millions of...